Dr. Jose Hernandez
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies
(956) 665- 7153
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD, University of New Mexico, 2004
Major: Spanish & Portuguese
Dissertation Title: Present perfect Variation and Grammaticization in Salvadoran
Spanish
MA, The University of Houston, 1997
Major: Spanish
Dissertation Title: La retenci—n cl'tica y la duplicaci—n acusativa nominal del espa–ol
mexicoamericano en Houston, Texas en una situaci—n de contacto lingŸ'stico
BA, The University of Texas - Pan American, 1990
Major: Spanish, History, ESL
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, University of Texas-Pan American ( 2011)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American (2005 - 2011)
Assistant Professor, University of Saint Thomas (2004 - 2005)
Lecturer, University of Saint Thomas (2003 - 2004)
Teaching Assistant, University of New Mexico (1998 - 2003)
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
Beatriz Solís, Jose Hernandez, "The truth about verdá: Its discursive uses with modal-epistemic
reading." Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts. Dale Koike and Lidia Rodríguez
Alfano (Ed.) Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 2010: 117-135.
Jose Hernandez. "Una aproximación variacionista a la diferenciación social y semántico-pragmática
de la variable tratamiento informal en el habla bataneca." Formas y fórmulas de tratamiento en el
mundo hispánico. Martin Hummel, Bettina Kluge, and María Eugenia Vázquez Laslop (Ed.) D.F.:
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Editorial El Colegio de México, 2010:
Jose Hernandez and Jessi Aaron. "Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts
in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in Houston." Spanish in contact: Policy, social and
linguistic inquiries. Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron (Ed.) Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 2007:
327-341.
Jose Hernandez. "La Frontera Noroeste, universo lingüístico entre más de dos mundos. Part of the
collective work." Historia Sociolingüística de México, Tomo III: México en su geografía lingüística.
El Colegio de México,
Jose Hernandez. "Variación diacrónica de Pretérito Perfecto y Pretérito en el discurso narrativo de
documentos coloniales mexicanos (1523-1808)." Cambio y Variación Lingüística: Argumentos
Cualitativos y Argumentos Cuantitativos en Sociolingüística. D.F.: El Colegio de México,
Conference Proceedings
Jose Hernandez. Measuring rates and constraints of word-final nasal velarization in dialect contact.
Luis A. Ortiz-López (Ed.) 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Proceedings. (2011): 54-69.
Jose Hernandez. Presente Perfecto en la narrativa: Una comparación diacrónica y sincrónica.
Concepción Company Company and José G. Moreno de Alba (Ed.) Actas del VII Congreso
Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española. Madrid: Editorial Arco. (2008): 677-699.
Jose Hernandez. Present Perfect for Preterit in Salvadoran Narratives: The perfective expansion
into narrative discourse. Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (Ed.) 9th Hispanic
Linguistics Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (2006): 297-307.
Jose Hernandez. De un significado intensivo a un marcador de reacción: ándale y ándele en el
español mexicano. María del Carmen Morúa Leyva and Ana María Ortiz Ciscomani (Ed.) Séptimo
Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste. Hermosillo, Sonora: Editorial UniSon.
(2004): 313-325.
Journal Articles
Jason Parsons, Jose Hernandez, Carlos Gonzalez, and J Gardea-Torresdey. Sorption of Cr(III) and
Cr(VI) to High and Low Pressure Synthetic Nano-Magnetite (Fe3O4)Particles.. Chemical
engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996). 254, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2014):
171-180.
Carlos Gonzalez, Jose Hernandez, J Peralta-Videa, C Botez, Jason Parsons, and J Gardea-Torresdey.
Sorption kinetic study of selenite and selenate onto a high and low pressure aged iron oxide
nanomaterial.. Journal of hazardous materials. 211-212, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2012): 138-45.
Jose Hernandez. De elemento léxico a marcador modal aseverativo: Un cambio de verdad. Beatrís
Solís, José Esteban Hernández (Ed.) Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. 4, no. 2 (2011):
343-378.
Jose Hernandez. La reconstrucción de un pasado lingüístico a través de la narrativa presente:
Lengua, historia e identidad en El Nacimiento de los Negros. Signótica. 22, no. 2 (2010): 309-341.
Jose Hernandez. Measuring rates of word-final nasal velarization: The effect of dialect contact on
in-group and out-group exchanges. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 13, no. 5 (2009): 583-612.
Jose Hernandez. Present Perfect semantics and usage in Salvadoran Spanish. Revista Internacional
de Lingüística Iberoamericana. 12, no. 2 (2008): 115-140.
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Jose Hernandez. Me dijo, seguí adelante, sigue estudiando: Semantic differentiation in casual form
of address variation. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 84, no. 6 (2007): 703-724.
Jose Hernandez. Aculturación e identidad en El Nacimiento de los Negros. Glenn Martínez (Ed.) A
Journal of Borderlands. 2, no. 1 (2003): 85-97.
Other
Jose Hernandez, Pamela Anderson-Mejias, and Hugo Mejias. IJLASSO--Spanish Language Contact
in the Americas. J.E. Hernández. Guest Editor (Ed.) Linguistic Association of the Southwest. 30, no.
2 (2011): 135.
Jose Hernandez. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. (2010)
Jose Hernandez. La reconstrucción de un pasado lingüístico a través de la narrativa presente:
Evidence from two Spanish varieties. Celeste Rodríguez Louro and Chad Howe (Ed.) Present
Perfect across Dialects and Languages.
Jose Hernandez. No decir nada es como decir verdad. Rubén Baldazo, José Esteban Hernández (Ed.)
Revista Española de Lingüística.
Jose Hernandez. ¡Chales güey! ¡Si somos mexicanos cabrones!: Reducción de /s/ final de sílaba entre
transmigrantes salvadoreños en el sur de Texas. Rubén Maldonado, José Esteban Hernández (Ed.)
Lengua y Migración.
Alyssa Cavazos, Marcela Hebbard, Jose Hernandez, Crystal Rodriguez, and Geoffrey Schwarz.
Advancing a Transnational, Transdisciplinary and Translingual Framework: A Professional
Development Series for Teaching Assistants in Writing and Spanish Programs (forthcoming). Across
the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning, and Academic Writing.
Under Submission
Other
Jose Hernandez. La reconstrucción de un pasado lingüístico a través de la narrativa presente:
Evidence from two Spanish varieties. Celeste Rodríguez Louro and Chad Howe (Ed.) Present
Perfect across Dialects and Languages.
Jose Hernandez. No decir nada es como decir verdad. Rubén Baldazo, José Esteban Hernández (Ed.)
Revista Española de Lingüística.
Jose Hernandez. ¡Chales güey! ¡Si somos mexicanos cabrones!: Reducción de /s/ final de sílaba entre
transmigrantes salvadoreños en el sur de Texas. Rubén Maldonado, José Esteban Hernández (Ed.)
Lengua y Migración.
PRESENTATIONS
Jose Hernandez. "Appreciating linguistic differences: Spanish in Texas," Texas Spanish in Texas
Schools Workshop for K-12th educators, Spanish in Texas Project, Center for Open Educational
Research and Language Learning, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas. (July 2012)
Jose Hernandez. "Voices in the Salvadoran Diaspora: The psychological impact of contact," Lozano
Long Conference: Central Americans and the Latino/a Landscape: New Configurations of Latina/o
America, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. (February 2012)
Jose Hernandez. "Distribución variable de un marcador del discurso: No decir nada es como decir
verdad," 15th meeting of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens,
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Georgia. (October 2011)
Jose Hernandez. "Variación diacrónica de Pretérito Perfecto y Pretérito en el discurso narrativo," XL
Linguistic Association of the Southwest, University of Texas Brownsville, South Padre Island,
Texas. (October 2011)
Jose Hernandez. "¡Chales güey! ¡Si somos mexicanos cabrones!: Reducción de /s/ final de sílaba
entre transmigrantes salvadoreños en el sur de Texas," XL Linguistic Association of the Southwest,
University of Texas Brownsville, South Padre Island, Texas. (October 2011)
Jose Hernandez. "Focus on the Semantic-Pragmatic Component in Present Perfect
Grammaticalization: Evidence from two Spanish Varieties," 12th Conference, International
Pragmatics Association, Manchester, England. (July 2011)
Jose Hernandez. "Argumentos Cualitativos y Argumentos Cuantitativos en Sociolingüística: Sus
límites y posibilidades de complementación," II Coloquio de Cambio y Variación Lingüística:
Argumentos Cualitativos y Argumentos Cuantitativos en Sociolingüística, El Colegio de México,
México, D.F.. (October 2010)
Jose Hernandez. "Variación diacrónica de Pretérito Perfecto y Pretérito en el discurso narrativo," II
Coloquio de Cambio y Variación Lingüística: Argumentos Cualitativos y Argumentos Cuantitativos
en Sociolingüística, El Colegio de México, México, D.F.. (October 2010)
Jose Hernandez. "Comunidad, identidad y lengua: historia sociolingüística de los japoneses en Baja
California," Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California,
Tijuana, México. (May 2010)
Jose Hernandez. "Measuring rates and constraints of word-final nasal velarization in dialect contact,"
13th meeting of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Universidad de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto
Rico. (October 2009)
Jose Hernandez. "Contacto sin tacto: Pasado y presente de una minoría lingüística en Baja California
y el Noroeste de México," XXXVIII Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah. (September 2009)
Jose Hernandez. "Variation in a dialect contact situation: measuring the effect of a close-knit
community," 37th New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Rice University, Houston, Texas. (November
2008)
Jose Hernandez. "Measuring leveling and bidialectalism in dialect contact," 12th Meeting of the
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. (October 2008)
Jose Hernandez. "De elemento léxico a marcador modal aseverativo: un cambio de verdad," XXXVII
Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. (October 2008)
Jose Hernandez. "Reconstruyendo un pasado lingüístico a través de la narrativa presente: Lengua,
historia e identidad en El Nacimiento de los Negros," XXXVII Linguistic Association of the
Southwest, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. (October 2008)
Jose Hernandez. "¿Cómo se puede llegar a ser más que perfecto?," 11th Meeting of the Hispanic
Linguistics Symposium, University of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. (November 2007)
Jose Hernandez. "La verdá sobre verdad: sus usos discursivos con valor epistémico," 1st
International Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Dialogue Studies, University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas. (April 2007)
Jose Hernandez. "Diferenciación semántica a nivel social y discursivo en la variación verbal de las
formas de tratamiento casual," 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest,
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formas de tratamiento casual," 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest,
Texas A & M International University, Laredo, Texas. (September 2006)
Jose Hernandez. "―La variación verbal de voseo y tuteo en el español salvadoreño," 3rd Congreso
Internacional sobre Lengua y Sociedad, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, España. (September 2006)
Jose Hernandez. "Presente Perfecto en la narrativa: una comparación dialectal," 7th Congreso
Internacional de la Historia de la Lengua Española, UNAM, Mérida, México. (September 2006)
Jose Hernandez. "Present Perfect in narrative in Salvadoran Spanish," 9th Joint Meeting of the
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium / Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First
and Second Languages, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, United States. (November 2005)
Jose Hernandez. "Nadie es perfecto ¿o sí? Variación dialectal en el Pretérito Perfecto," 4th
Conference of the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina, Universidad Autónoma
de Nuevo León, Nuevo León, Mexico. (October 2005)
Jose Hernandez. "Patterns of /s/ reduction in Salvadoran Spanish in Houston: the effects of dialect
contact," 20th Conference of Spanish in the United States / 5th Conference of Spanish in contact with
Other Languages, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. (March 2005)
Jose Hernandez. "Meaning and prototype clustering of the Present Perfect construction in Salvadoran
Spanish," The 7th meeting of The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium / The 6th Conference on the
Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. (October 2003)
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Adv Span Composition
Beg Spanish-Non Spkng
Beginning Spanish II
Concepts Span Phonetic
Dir Read Hisp Lit & Ling
Dir Read:Method&Tech Span Tran
Dir Res In Lang Lit Cult
Fund Of Spanish Lang
Intro To Hispanic Ling
Intro to Hisp Linguistics
Issues in Lang Acquisition
Lang, ID & Eth Span Spkg World
Meth & Tech Translation
Problems & Issues - US Spanish
Problems & Issues Rel
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ST in Hisp Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Sp Topics In Span Ling
Sp Topics in Span Ling
Span Prag,Semantic,Disc Analys
Span for Nat/Her Speak I
Span for Non-Nat Speak I
Span for Non-Nat Speak II
Span-Eng Translation
Spanish Grammar
Spanish Lang Contact & Borders
Spanish Phonology & Phonetics
Spanish for Bilinguals I
Spec Topic Hisp Linguist
Thesis
Thesis I
Thesis II
Variation in Second Language
Directed Student Learning
Dissertation Committee Member. Dinorah Pesqueira, , Other (outside UTRGV).
Dissertation Committee Member. Víctor A. Valdivia Ruiz, , Other (outside UTRGV).
Master's Thesis Committee Member. Stephanie Brock, , Other (within UTPA). ( 2012)
Master's Thesis Committee Member. Miriam Cruz, , Other (within UTPA). ( 2010)
Master's Thesis Committee Member. Beatriz Solís, , Other (within UTPA). ( 2009)
Master's Thesis Committee Member. Marco Córdova, , Other (within UTPA). ( 2007)
SERVICE
Department Service
Committee Chair, Department of Languages and Literature. (2010 - 2012)
Committee Member, Applied Linguistics-Search Committee. ( 2009)
Committee Member, French-Search Committee. ( 2009)
Committee Chair, Hispanic Linguistics-Search Committee. ( 2009)
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Committee Member, Chinese Applied Linguistics-Search Committee. ( 2006)
Committee Member, French Sociolinguistics-Search Committee. ( 2005)
Committee Member, Spanish Translation and Interpretation-Search Committee. ( 2005)
University Service
Committee Member, Curriculum committee. ( 2005)
Committee Member, Subcommittee on Linguistics Curriculum. ( 2005)
Task Force Member, State Board for Educators Certification. ( 2009)
Task Force Member, Modern Languages in the Core Curriculum Task force. ( 2008)
Committee Member, Academic Advisory Committee. (2005 - 2008)
Committee Member, International Week Planning Committee. (2005 - 2008)
Committee Member, Modern Languages & Literature. (September 2005 - May 2007)
Committee Member, University Library Committee. (2004 - 2005)
Committee Member, El Club Hispánico. (2003 - 2005)
Professional Service
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , New Directions in Hispanic Linguistics
Committee Member , Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Publicity Committee (October 2009)
Committee Member , CLEP Spanish Language Test Development Committee (2012 - 2013)
Editor, Journal Editor , Spanish Dialect Contact in the Americas-Southwest Journal of Linguistics
(December 2012)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Hipertexto ( 2012)
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , Hispanic Linguistic Symposium , Gainesville , ( 2012)
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , III Coloquio de Cambio y Variación Lingüística ( 2012)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Journal of Sociolinguistics ( 2012)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Revista Signotica ( 2012)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Southwest Journal of Linguistics ( 2012)
Committee Member , CLEP Spanish Language Test Development Committee (2011 - 2012)
Reviewer, Conference Paper , 2010 Hispanic Linguistic Symposium ( 2011)
Reviewer, Conference Paper , II Coloquio de Cambio y Variación Lingüística: Argumentos
Cualitativos y Argumentos Cuantitativos en Sociolingüística ( 2011)
Reviewer, Book , Spanish as a Heritage Language in the US: State of the Science ( 2011)
Reviewer, Conference Paper , 2009 Hispanic Linguistic Symposium ( 2010)
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , Hispanic Linguistic Symposium , Bloomington , ( 2010)
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Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , Linguistic Association of the Southwest , Las Cruces , ( 2010)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Southwest Journal of Linguistics ( 2010)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics ( 2010)
Reviewer, Conference Paper , XXVII Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Language and
Literature ( 2010)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Hispania (2009 - 2010)
Committee Member , Graduate Organizing Committee (December 2009)
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , Hispanic Linguistic Symposium ( 2009)
Program Organizer , HLS 2009-Puerto Rico ( 2009)
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , Linguistic Association of the Southwest , Provo , ( 2009)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Hipertexto (2008 - 2009)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Journal of Language Variation and Change ( 2008)
Committee Member , Graduate Organizing Committee (December 2006)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Southwest Journal of Linguistics ( 2005)
Professional Memberships
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Asociación Mexicana de Lingüística Aplicada
Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Linguistics Society of America
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